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News and Analysis 1/17/22
“Despite the fact that many of the Bedouins are living on the ancestral homelands, while others were internally displaced after 1940, Israel views them as ‘trespassers’ on their land and does not recognize their ownership’”: What’s Happening in the Naqab? Israel Uproots Palestinians to Plant Trees (Mondoweiss) “[A]n American military presence in Iraq and Syria…
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The Two State Solution Is Dead: What Next?
[On January 13, 2022, Jonathan Kuttab moderated a Nonviolence International discussion of what comes next in Israel/Palestine now that the two-state solution is dead. Discussants were Jeff Halper, author of Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and the Case for One Democratic State, and Noura Erakat. author of Justice for Some: Law and the…
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News and Analysis 1/15/22
The disgraceful prison at Guantanamo still holds 18 prisoners whose release has been ordered, more continue to be held without charge … Guantánamo Turns 20: Ex-Prisoner Moazzam Begg Calls on Biden to Close Site & End Legacy of Torture (Democracy Now) … and now that the war under which they were taken prisoner has ended…
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News and Analysis 1/13/22
The U.S. Department of State is calling for an investigation into the death of a man witnesses say “was stopped by Israeli forces while driving home, then dragged out of the car, gagged and handcuffed, and left to die”: Israeli Forces Kill 80-Year-Old Palestinian American Man in Violent Arrest (Democracy Now) The whistleblower came to…
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News and Analysis 1/11/22
“One attendee from the resistance side said the atmosphere at the talks, held Saturday and Sunday, indicated ‘flexibility’ on the part of Taliban officials” … Taliban Meets with Opposition Militia Representatives in Iran (Washington Post) … “but Iran is still ‘not at the point of officially recognising Taliban’”: Iran Says Won’t Officially Recognise Taliban After…
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News and Analysis 1/8/22
“I’ve observed trial proceedings in person at Guantánamo. The chipper ‘secrecy’ imposed by the military is insulting, anti-democratic, and cowardly” — Michael Bronner, producer of the 2021 film The Mauritanian: ‘Anti-Democratic and Cowardly’: US Building New Secret Courtroom at Guantánamo (Common Dreams) “Radicalised groups openly calling for genocide of Muslims are roaming free [in India]…
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Religion and Populism
[On January 6, 2022, the Council on Foreign Relations held an on-the-record discussion of the relationship between religion and populism, and how this relationship is affecting the politics of Europe and the United States, featuring Jocelyne Cesari, chair of religion and politics at the University of Birmingham, and Tobias Cremer, junior research fellow in religion…
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New and Analysis 1/5/22
Kazakh ambitions to replace Russian with their own language as the official language provokes troubling rhetoric: Is Kazakhstan Russia’s Next Ukraine? (Middle East Soccer) “While the Houthis have hit Saudi Arabia several times recently, it is a small fraction of cross-border strikes, with the Saudis carrying out dramatically more airstrikes against sites in Yemen”: UN…
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News and Analysis 1/3/22
As Iran demands U.N. condemnation of the U.S. and a trial for Donald Trump for extra-territorial assassination … Iran Calls for UN Action on US over killing of Qassem Soleimani (Aljazeera) Iran Vows Revenge for Soleimani Killing if Trump Not Put on Trial (Reuters) … “[M]embers of Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Forces were chanting against the…
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In Memorium: Mahmoud Ayoub, Robert Crane, and Safei El-Deen Hameed
Among the remarkable Muslims who passed away in 2021 were three who, in different ways, supported the Minaret of Freedom Institute. Dr. Mahmoud Ayoub, one of the most outstanding scholars of his time, was knowledgeable in both Islamic jurisprudence and in Sufism. We were honored to work with him on a number of occasions and…
